Java 8 Stream, getting head and tail

Question

Java 8 introduced a Stream class that resembles Scala\'s Stream, a powerful lazy construct using which it is possible to do something like this very concisely:

Answer 1

There are many interesting suggestions provided here, but if someone needs a solution without dependencies to third party libraries I came up with this:

    import java.util.AbstractMap;
    import java.util.Optional;
    import java.util.Spliterators;
    import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

    /**
     * Splits a stream in the head element and a tail stream.
     * Parallel streams are not supported.
     * 
     * @param stream Stream to split.
     * @param  Type of the input stream.
     * @return A map entry where {@link Map.Entry#getKey()} contains an
     *    optional with the first element (head) of the original stream
     *    and {@link Map.Entry#getValue()} the tail of the original stream.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException for parallel streams.
     */
    public static  Map.Entry, Stream> headAndTail(final Stream stream) {
        if (stream.isParallel()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("parallel streams are not supported");
        }
        final Iterator iterator = stream.iterator();
        return new AbstractMap.SimpleImmutableEntry<>(
                iterator.hasNext() ? Optional.of(iterator.next()) : Optional.empty(),
                StreamSupport.stream(Spliterators.spliteratorUnknownSize(iterator, 0), false)
        );
    }