I see how that is a much better way to to enable the consolereporter.  

My only concern is that it slightly complicates the application-context.xml.  Not a huge way, but I always attempt to keep things as simple as possible for the end user.  I don't expect the consolereporter to be used much--I briefly thought about taking it out rather than commenting it out.  Do you feel strongly about this?  A big motivation for me is a desire to deploy, verify this story, and end it.