Major Description
UIViewParameter calls setSubmittedValue() in encodeAll() to store the current value of the view parameter in the state as the submitted value (this helps UIViewParameter to restore its value on a postback). UIViewParameter.encodeAll() itself is called by UIViewRoot.encodeEnd() for every UIViewParameter in the view.
If the current request is an ajax-request, the view state is currently already generated in UIViewRoot.encodeChildren() (before UIViewRoot.encodeEnd()). At this time the submitted value for every UIViewParameter is null, because its encodeAll()-method was not called yet.
Later, when UIViewRoot.encodeEnd() is called, UIViewParameter.encodeAll() is called and it sets the submitted value correctly, but due to the fact that the state has already been generated, these changes are dropped.
This causes the value of every UIViewParameter to be set to null in the next request, which will most likely end in validation problems with the required validator.
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