What I understood is that both will return the first matched element
from the stream, for example, when used in conjunction with filter?
That’s not true. According to the javadoc, Stream#findAny():
Returns an
Optional<T>describing some element of the stream, or an empty
Optional<T>if the stream is empty.
The behavior of this operation is explicitly nondeterministic; it is free to select any element in the stream. This is to allow for maximal performance in parallel operations;
while Stream.findFirst() will return an Optional<T> describing strictly the first element of the stream. The Stream class doesn’t have a .findOne() method, so I suppose you meant .findFirst().