java.lang.IllegalStateException while connecting to RTC

Hello,

i was facing the error 2020-11-19 12:58:07       SEVERE Initializing of RTC failed -java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already started from a different context. Current context = plain java
    at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.InternalTeamPlatform.start(InternalTeamPlatform.java:90)
    at com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform.startup(TeamPlatform.java:50)

while connecting to RTC : BElow is the code snippet used to connect to RTC

 */
  public RTCConnect(String repositoryURI,String userId,String password)  throws TeamRepositoryException,Exception
  {
    try{
      TeamPlatform.startup();
      teamRepository = TeamPlatform.getTeamRepositoryService().getTeamRepository(repositoryURI);
      teamRepository.registerLoginHandler(new RTCLoginHandler(userId,password));
      teamRepository.login(null);

      int a = teamRepository.getConnectionTimeout();
    }
    catch (Exception ex){

      throw ex;
    }
  }

info: Running this as an eclipsec application