Tomcat – Running Tomcat on an Apache Alias Or Map Port numbers to Hostnames

I have WAMP installed with Apache at port 80 and Tomcat installed at port 8080.
So, I access my php projects from localhost/ and java projects at localhost:8080/
Can I install or map Tomcat to a better address like localhost/java/ or betterstill a pseudoname like javahost instead of localhost
I have added a line to the HOSTS file

127.0.0.1:8080       javahost

But that doesn't work. And I cannot ping to javahost. I guess its not supposed to work that way.

Is there a way out?

WAMPSERVER 2 with APACHE 2.2.11

TOMCAT 6.0.29

WINDOWS XP PRO SP3

Update:

Thanks to @bindbn

I changed the hosts file to

127.0.0.1 javahost

I enabled proxy module in Apache
Then added this to the end of the httpd.conf

<VirtualHost javahost>
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass         /  http://localhost:8080
ProxyPassReverse  /  http://localhost:8080

</VirtualHost> 

From using Virtualhost & mod_proxy together

Following which javahost also loads the php website hosted at port 80 instead of the localhost:8080 website.

Update
Found this on the interwebs http:// confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF30/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy

# Put this in the main section of your configuration (or desired virtual host, if using Apache virtual hosts)
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On

#<Proxy *>// changed to below.
<Proxy javahost:80>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass /confluence http://localhost:8080/confluence 
ProxyPassReverse /confluence http://localhost:8080/confluence
<Location /confluence>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Location>

Changing confluence to java (and changing localhost:8080/confluence to to localhost:8080)gives me @lladnar 's answer, which works well in redirecting localhost/java and javahost/java to localhost:8080, but can this not be used to redirect ONLY javahost to localhost:8080 and keep localhost to read from port 80?
I also changed the lines to,

<Proxy javahost:80>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/

Now javahost redirects to localhost:8080 but localhost also redirects to localhost:8080 and so I cannot access the localhost:80 port which houses my php website.

Where am I going wrong? Any Ideas?

My aim is to redirect javahost (or a different IP ) to localhost:8080, keeping localhost:80 accessible from localhost and 127.0.0.1 and my pc's intranet IP

Updated with Answer
This worked. I added this to the end of httpd.conf. proxy module and proxy http module are on. My Workstation had a single LAN IP (192.168.1.4). I added another IP(192.168.1.5) and used that IP instead of the javahost name.Now 192.68.1.5 open my Tomcat website and 192.168.1.4 opens my PHP website.

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.5>
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass         /  http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse  /  http://localhost:8080/

</VirtualHost> 

Thanks to @Caleb for the idea of multiple IPs. Thanks to @lladnar and @bindbn for the Proxy code!(I wish I could split the answer credit and since I have no rep(rep 6), I cannot give any rep)

Problems with current setup
Currently people on the intranet use http:// workstationname/ to access the intranet PHP website. They will now have to use the ips for the JAVA and PHP website. Is there a way to bind a specific hostname to a specific IP address