Writing Scheduled Tasks
A scheduled task in OpenMRS runs every so often and does tasks in the background.
Every task is run on a new thread.
Your class should extend AbstractTask
Examples
https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/tree/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/scheduler/tasks
Authentication
As of 1.7.0 tasks are executed as the Daemon User. This gives them all privileges without having to use Context.addProxyPrivilege().