Installed Tomcat 5.5.35 with windows installer, using a non-default install path of C:\Tomcat This resulted in -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Tomcat\endorsed instead of -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Tomcat\common\endorsed
Patch proposed for 5.5.x
Fixed in 5.5.x and will be included in 5.5.36 onwards.