Issue with maven remote deploy while using Ant tasks.

Hi All,
I am migrating a project which is currently Ant-based to maven.I am also using jazz/rtc as my working enviornment/tool.
The project structure is something like

project-A (parent pom)
project-B
project-C (dependent on project-B)

I have adding some task e.g.com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.StartBuildActivityTask
for adding feature to RTC like showing various activites like compile,test,publishing artifacts on RTC UI.

Now the issue I am facing;
While I run the
-e install -DperformRelease=true -Prelease; the jars are installed on local respository properly without any error and all activities,junit reports, published artiafcts are shown properly on RTC UI/.
But when i run
-e deploy -DperformRelease=true -Prelease ; i am getting following error;
Unable to update last contact time for engine: com.ibm.team.repository.common.transport.TeamServiceException: JAZ0099I HTTP error "Remote host closed connection during handshake" accessing https://URL/jazz/service/com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.IRepositoryRemoteService.
at com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.AbstractPublisherTask.getBuildResult(AbstractPublisherTask.java:150) at com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.AbstractPublisherTask.updateLastContactTime(AbstractPublisherTask.java:180)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly

I am not able to understand what exactly is happening.
Also;
If I remove all the ant task from pom files and run

-e deploy -DperformRelease=true -Prelease ; the jars are properly deployed on remote artifactory. but in that case I am not able to see various activities and published artifacts/jars in RTC/jazz.

Please let me know if any one has face same issue? any help is really appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation

Thanks and Regard
PAT