diff --git a/ActivitiGrailsPlugin.groovy b/ActivitiGrailsPlugin.groovy
index ee23985..b0b283c 100644
--- a/ActivitiGrailsPlugin.groovy
+++ b/ActivitiGrailsPlugin.groovy
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class ActivitiGrailsPlugin {
 		  def disabledActiviti = System.getProperty("disabledActiviti")
 		  
 		  if (!disabledActiviti && !CH.config.activiti.disabled) {
-		    	println "Activiti Process Engine Initialization..."	
+		    	println "Configuring Activiti Process Engine ..."	
 				
 		    	processEngineConfiguration(org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration) {
 		            processEngineName = CH.config.activiti.processEngineName?:ActivitiConstants.DEFAULT_PROCESS_ENGINE_NAME
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ class ActivitiGrailsPlugin {
 		            identityService = ref("identityService")
 		            formService = ref("formService")
 		        }
+			  
+				println "... finished configuring Activiti Process Engine."
 		  }
     }
 
diff --git a/scripts/DeployBar.groovy b/scripts/DeployBar.groovy
index 87d1a6a..7d8f7b6 100755
--- a/scripts/DeployBar.groovy
+++ b/scripts/DeployBar.groovy
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright 2010 the original author or authors.
+/* Copyright 2010-2012 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ target(createBar: "Create Activiti Business Archive (BAR) that contains process
 	if (deploymentResources) {
 		deploymentResources = [deploymentResources].flatten()
 	} else {
-	  ant.echo "deploymentResources not configured. Use ActivitiConstants.DEFAULT_DEPLOYMENT_RESOURCES..."
+	  event('StatusFinal', ['deploymentResources not configured. Use ActivitiConstants.DEFAULT_DEPLOYMENT_RESOURCES...'])
 	  ActivitiConstants = classLoader.loadClass("org.grails.activiti.ActivitiConstants")
 	  deploymentResources = ActivitiConstants.DEFAULT_DEPLOYMENT_RESOURCES
 	}
-	ant.echo "deploymentResources = $deploymentResources"
+	event('StatusUpdate', ["deploymentResources = $deploymentResources"])
 	resolver = new PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver()
 	deploymentResources.each { resource ->
 	    resources = resolver.getResources(resource)  
diff --git a/scripts/InstallActivitiExamples.groovy b/scripts/InstallActivitiExamples.groovy
index c590c8b..76c5fdf 100644
--- a/scripts/InstallActivitiExamples.groovy
+++ b/scripts/InstallActivitiExamples.groovy
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ target(main: "Copy Activiti examples to test/unit directory") {
 		ant.copy (todir:"${basedir}/test/unit", overwrite: true) {
 			fileset dir:"${activitiPluginDir}/src/activiti-examples"
 		}							
-		println "Activiti examples installed successfully."					
-		println "You can run the installed examples with 'grails test-app -unit'."					
+		event('StatusFinal', ['Activiti examples installed successfully.'])					
+		event('StatusFinal', ['You can run the installed examples with "grails test-app -unit".'])					
 }
 
 setDefaultTarget(main)
diff --git a/scripts/InstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy b/scripts/InstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
index 3701600..e6549bf 100644
--- a/scripts/InstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
+++ b/scripts/InstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ target(install: "Install Vacation Request Sample Application") {
 		ant.copy (todir:"${basedir}/src/groovy", overwrite: true) {
 			fileset dir:"${vacationRequestDir}/src/groovy"
 		}
+		event("StatusUpdate", [ "Vacation Request Sample Application installed."])
 }
 
 private installStandardConfigFiles() {
diff --git a/scripts/UninstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy b/scripts/UninstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
index 8807f18..67d5410 100644
--- a/scripts/UninstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
+++ b/scripts/UninstallVacationRequestSampleapp.groovy
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ target(uninstall: "Uninstall Vacation Request Sample Application") {
 		ant.delete dir:"${basedir}/grails-app/domain/${vacationRequestDir}"
 		ant.delete dir:"${basedir}/grails-app/views/${vacationRequestDir}"
 		ant.delete dir:"${basedir}/src/groovy/${vacationRequestDir}"
+		event("StatusUpdate", ["Vacation Request Sample Application uninstalled."])
 }
 
 setDefaultTarget(uninstall)
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