CompilationStatusListener not working as expected

Hi, I'm trying to write a basic plugin using gradle-based setup, the plugin includes functionality to perform a certain action on successful completion of the build. Using resources available in the forum and other places, I learnt about the CompilationStatusListener and CompileManager, collated this code.

public class BuildSuccessNotifComponent implements ProjectComponent, CompilationStatusListener {
    protected Project _project;

    public BuildSuccessNotifComponent(Project project)
    {
        _project = project;
    }

    public void initComponent()
    {
        CompilerManager.getInstance(_project).addCompilationStatusListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void compilationFinished(boolean aborted, int errors, int warnings, @NotNull CompileContext compileContext){
        if(errors ==0) {
            System.out.println("This works!");
        }
    }
}

I expected the debugger to hit the method breakpoint after a successful build in the test IDE, test build was in IDEA, created a build configuration which was a simple mvn install.