The JaRTS runtime environment does not support garbage collection as known from Standard JVMs. Most real-time software components like interrupt handlers and device drivers would derive no or only a little benefit from having automatic garbage collection. On the other hand garbage collection imposes significant costs in terms of runtime efficiency, predictability and system complexity.
RTCE provides the concept of Allocation Contexts. Objects are allocated on an Allocation Context of the current thread. The Allocation Context is released when the thread terminates or can be released explicitly by the programmer. It is also possible to allocate objects on dedicated Allocation Contexts. The second memory strategy of RTCE, allocation objects on the stack is currently not implemented.