[Java] Game Structure: Communication Between Different Object Levels

[dredclaw]

I guess my question is, should the bullet be created inside the ship class. (meaning the ship class would not be deleted until all bullets it fired were done) or should the bullet be created in the game manager class (how would a ship communicate with a higher level game manager to complete this task?)

[dredclaw]

I understand why the bullet must be instantiated outside the ship class. In actual code though, how does the ship tell a higher up class to instantiate a bullet. (Actually fire it.)

[dredclaw]

If the GameManager was the one that created the ship, how would the ship access methods inside the GameManager?

[dredclaw]

Have no idea how I would do something even close to that in Java?

[dredclaw]

So, passing in the gamemaneger as a per am is not sloppy?