Setting request timeout for JAX-RS 2.0 Client API

With Resteasy this can be accomplished by building your Client as such.

Client client = new ResteasyClientBuilder()
    .establishConnectionTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
    .socketTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
    .build();

I have not seen a list of standard configuration properties you could set via ClientBuilder.newClient(Configuration configuration) which would be needed to make this portable.

Note: this is a new method available on JAX-RS 2.1

This is a very old post but the below code will work for both jersey and resteasy.

ClientBuilder clientBuilder = ClientBuilder.newBuilder();
clientBuilder.connectTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
clientBuilder.readTimeout(12, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Client client = clientBuilder.build();

You can do this by creating a ClientConfig first and providing it as an argument when creating the new client.

import org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientProperties;

ClientConfig configuration = new ClientConfig();
configuration.property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 1000);
configuration.property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT, 1000);
Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(configuration);