diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java
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+package org.archive.crawler.migrate;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
+public class MigrateSettings {
+	
+	public void instanceMain(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		
+		File orderXmlFile = new File(args[0]);
+		File newConfigDir = new File(args[1]);
+		File defaultConfigDir = new File("dist/src/main/conf/jobs");
+
+		try {
+
+			// copy defaults.xml to configPath
+			File srcDefaultsXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
+			File tgtDefaultsXml = new File(newConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
+			FileUtils.copyFile(srcDefaultsXml, tgtDefaultsXml);
+
+			// copy default profile crawler-beans.xml to configPath
+			File srcCrawlerBeansXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"profile-crawler-beans.xml");
+			File tgtCrawlerBeansXml = new File(newConfigDir,"crawler-beans.xml");
+			FileUtils.copyFile(srcCrawlerBeansXml, tgtCrawlerBeansXml);
+
+			// parse order XML
+			if (!orderXmlFile.canRead()) {
+				throw new Exception("can not read file: " 
+						+ orderXmlFile.getAbsolutePath());
+			} else {
+				Document orderXmlDom = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
+				.newDocumentBuilder().parse(orderXmlFile);
+			}
+
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			System.out.println("Caught Exception: " + e.getMessage());
+		}
+	}
+		
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		new MigrateSettings().instanceMain(args);
+	}
+	
+}