Does Java SE 8 have Pairs or Tuples?

Question

I am playing around with lazy functional operations in Java SE 8, and I want to map an index i to a pair / tuple (i, value[i]), then <

Answer 1

Since Java 9, you can create instances of Map.Entry easier than before:

Entry pair = Map.entry(1, "a");

Map.entry returns an unmodifiable Entry and forbids nulls.