@Aspect
public class InternationalizationAspect {

    private static final String LANGUAGE_CODE_ENGLISH = "en";
    private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InternationalizationAspect.class);

    @Autowired
    InternationalizationService internationalizationService;

    @Autowired
    private HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest;

    @Around("execution(* com.***.***.***.***.getDescription(..))")
    public Object getInternationalizedTitleDescription(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint) throws Throwable {
        log.info("title getdescription intercepted");
        if (httpServletRequest == null) {
            log.info("http servlet request was not autowired correctly");
            return joinPoint.proceed();
        } else {
            Locale locale = httpServletRequest.getLocale();
            log.info("locale is = " + locale);
            if (locale.getLanguage().equals(new Locale(LANGUAGE_CODE_ENGLISH).getLanguage())) {
                return joinPoint.proceed();
            } else {
                log.info("getting internationalized description");
                Title t = (Title) joinPoint.getTarget();
                return internationalizationService.getTitleDescriptionFromTitleAndLocale(t, locale);
            }
        }
    }
}

title getdescription intercepted
http servlet request was not autowired correctly
title getdescription intercepted
http servlet request was not autowired correctly
title getdescription intercepted
http servlet request was not autowired correctly
title getdescription intercepted
http servlet request was not autowired correctly

<bean id="internationalizationAspect" class="com.***.***.***.InternationalizationAspect" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.***">
        <context:exclude-filter expression=".*_Roo_.*" type="regex"/>
        <context:exclude-filter expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller" type="annotation"/>
</context:component-scan>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
                            http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">

    <display-name>Spring Web Application example</display-name>

    <!-- Configurations for the root application context (parent context) -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /META-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>

    <!-- Configurations for the DispatcherServlet application context (child context) -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>
                /WEB-INF/spring/mvc/spring-mvc-servlet.xml
            </param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

<context:annotation-config />

<context:component-scan ... />