protected function _getViewObject() {
        if (!Zend_Registry::isRegistered('application')) {
            throw new Exception('Application is not registered.');
        }

        $bootstrap = Zend_Registry::get('application')->getBootstrap();
        $view = $bootstrap->getResource('View');

        // Unfortunately specific conditional required when using the Ano_ZFTwig package.
        // This switches the rendering engine from twig to php, since the Spawn templates are still
        // in php.
        if ($view instanceof Ano_View) {
            $view->setTemplateEngine('php');
        }
        return $view;
    }