Race condition in Ajax-based web application
Therese J. Albert, Kai Guo Qian, Xiang Fu · 2008
The atomicity is an important issue in asynchronous based data communication. In the modern web application today, asynchronous introduces hazardous effect causing unexpected results. This paper discusses the race condition occurred between the user request and server response due to the asynchronous nature of the web application using Ajax. A race condition occurs when multiple threads in a process try to modify the critical section data at the same time. The data will depend on which thread arrived last. Concurrent requests will be running asynchronously and it is impossible to predict which will return first. The locking mechanism is not a very effective way but may avoid race condition. Our future project develops a more effective way to detect the race conditions while parsing.