From Zeppelin-0.7, Zeppelin started supporting Helium plugins/packages using Helium Framework. However, I am not able to view any of the plugin on Helium page (localhost:808
Zeppelin 0.7.x doesn't support the online registry. In other words,
Zeppelin doesn't use helium.json. So you need to install each package by yourself.
artifact value to the absolute path considering your local machine in helium-xxx.jsonzeppelin-xxx.json into the $ZEPPELIN_HOME/helium directory (create if it doesn't exist yet)localhost:8080/#/helium page, then install the package.Zeppelin 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT supports the online registry. So you can install without any preparation.
But the NPE problem you've faced was fixed after https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2380.
So please git pull origin master and rebuild it :)