I have been using UIViewControllers and initWithNibName with much success, basically using them as a convenient way to design the view with Interface Builder. Unfortunately I have built a hierarchy of views before noticing this line in the UIViewController documentation:

Note: You should not use view controllers to manage views that fill only a part of their window

My question is this: Having a very simple NIB that only has a UIView in addition to the default First Responder and Owning Object, what is the simplest way to load the UIView into my code?

I have not been able to get loadNibNamed:owner:options: to work at this point, but suspect the answer will involve it somehow.