I have some web apps hosted in Tomcat container, Can we engage a Valve specifically for a webapp ? Please give me a way.
Yes, you put the valve directive into your context.xml as follows.
<Context path="/myapp" ...>
...
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
allow="10.1.2.*"/>
</Context>
I found this page to be a good tutorial on writing your own valve.