docs: function loadAliases(opts) {
          opts.preload = opts.preload || [];
          var preloadDirs = _.isArray(opts.preload) ? opts.preload : [opts.preload];
          preloadDirs.push(this.servicesDir);
          var aliases = _.extend({}, this.loadMappings(this.rootDir, preloadDirs), opts.serverAliases);
  
          // we also want to point the shorter adapter names to the same objects
          _.each(this.adapterMap, function (impl, type) {
              var fullName = utils.getCamelCase(impl + '.' + type + '.adapter');
              var shortName = utils.getPascalCase(type + '.adapter');
              if (aliases[fullName]) {
                  aliases[shortName] = aliases[fullName];
              }
          });
  
          return aliases;
      }