Long polling freezes browser and block other ajax request

Question

I am trying to implement long polling in my Spring-MVC Web App but it freezes my browser and other request after 4-5 continues AJAX requests.I have no clue whats goin on here is my relevant code.

The controller method:(Server Side):-

@Asynchronous
    @RequestMapping("/notify")
    public @ResponseBody
    Events notifyEvent(HttpServletRequest request) {
        Events events = null;
        try {
            events = (Events) request.getSession(false).getServletContext().getAttribute("events");
            System.out.println("Request Came from" + ((com.hcdc.coedp.safe.domain.User) request.getSession(false).getAttribute(Constants.KEY_LOGGED_IN_USER)).getLoginId());
            if (!events.getTypeOfEvents().isEmpty()) {
                System.out.println("Removing older entries");
                events.getTypeOfEvents().clear();
            }
            while (!events.isHappend()) {
                //Waiting for event to happen.
            }
            events = Events.getInstance();
            events.setHappend(false);
            request.getSession(false).getServletContext().setAttribute("events", events);

        }catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return events;
    }

The long-polling script(Client Side):-

$(document).ready(function() {
                    $.ajaxSetup({
                        async:true//set a global ajax requests as asynchronus
                    });
                     alert('Handler for .onload() called.');
                    waitForMsg();

                });
                function waitForMsg(){

                    xhr=  $.ajax({
                        type: "POST",
                        url: '<%=request.getContextPath()%>/notification/notify',

                        async: true, /* If set to non-async, browser shows page as "Loading.."*/
                        cache: false,
                        timeout:50000, /* Timeout in ms */
                        global:false,
                        success: function(data){ /* called when request to notifier completes */
                          /* Doing smthing with response **/
                            setTimeout(
                            waitForMsg, /* Request next message */
                            1000 /* ..after 1 seconds */
                        );
                        },
                        error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown){
                            addmsg("error", textStatus + " (" + errorThrown + ")");
                            setTimeout(
                            waitForMsg, /* Try again after.. */
                            15000); /* milliseconds (15seconds) */
                        }
                    });
                };

UPDATE:

function updateFeed(event, data) {
                var f=eval(data);
                alert(f.typeOfEvents.length);
            }

            function catchAll(event, data, type) {
                console.log(data);
                alert("error");
                console.log(type);
            }

            $.comet.connect('<%=request.getContextPath()%>/notification/notify');
            $(document).bind('feed.comet', updateFeed);
            $(document).bind('.comet', catchAll);

Neither alert box pops up..:(

Answer 1

Seems like you experienced the session file lock

For PHP

Use session_write_close() when you don't need session value