{
  // create a Hades object and get the
  // pointers to the runtime database and
  // the spectrometer
  Hades* myHades = new Hades;
  HSpectrometer* spec = gHades->getSetup();
  HRuntimeDb* rtdb = gHades->getRuntimeDb(); 
 
 // create the detector and its setup
  // and add it in the spectrometer
  HFRpcDetector* frpcdet = new HFRpcDetector;
  Int_t frpcMods[FRPC_MAX_SECTORS][FRPC_MAX_MODULES]   = { {1}, {1}, {1}, {1} };
  frpcdet->setModules(-1,frpcMods[0]);
  spec->addDetector(frpcdet);
	for (int i = 0; i < FRPC_MAX_SECTORS; ++i)
     		spec->getDetector("FRpc")->setModules(i,frpcMods[i]);
  
  // define the input
  HParOra2Io* ora = new HParOra2Io;
  //ora->open();
  ora->open("db-hades-test","fwdet_ana2");
  ora->setHistoryDate("now");
  rtdb->setFirstInput(ora);

  // define the output
  HParRootFileIo* output = new HParRootFileIo;
  output->open("FRpcParamsTest.root","RECREATE");
  rtdb->setOutput(output);

  // create the parameter containers
  HParSet* mypar=rtdb->getContainer("FRpcTrb3Lookup");
  HParSet* mypar2=rtdb->getContainer("FRpcGeomPar");
  mypar2->setParamContext("FRpcGeomProduction");
  
  //rtdb->initContainers(82841411); // listed in test db (sep10test)
  rtdb->initContainers(1); // the latest default?
  // save the output
  // (writes the data to the file)
  rtdb->saveOutput();

  // print content of the runtime
  // database on the screen
  rtdb->print();

  if(mypar)
  {
    std::cout <<"found trb3lookup parameter:" << std::endl;
    mypar->Print();
  }
  
   if(mypar2)
  {
    std::cout <<"found geometry  parameter:" << std::endl;
    mypar2->Print();
  }
  // delete the Hades object
  delete myHades;
}