What is the main difference in object creation between Java and C++?

Question

I\'m preparing for an exam in Java and one of the questions which was on a previous exam was:\"What is the main difference in object creation between Java and C++?\"

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Answer 1

In Java, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that executes Java code has to might¹ log all objects being created (or references to them to be exact) so that the memory allocated for them can later be freed automatically by garbage collection when objects are not referenced any more.

EDIT: I'm not sure whether this can be attributed to object creation in the strict sense but it surely happens somewhen between creation and assignment to a variable, even without an explicit assignment (when you create an object without assigning it, the JVM has to auto-release it some time after that as there are no more references).

In C++, only objects created on the stack are released automatically (when they get out of scope) unless you use some mechanism that handles this for you.

¹: Depending on the JVM's implementation.