Abstract : We consider the Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for general initial conditions in weighted Sobolev spaces that can support bright solitons (but exclude spectral singularities). We prove global wellposedness and give a full description of the long-time behavior of the solutions in the form of a finite sum of localized solitons and a dispersive component. Our analysis provides explicit formulae for the multi-soliton component as well as the correction dispersive term. We use the inverse scattering approach and the nonlinear steepest descent method of Deift and Zhou (1993) revisited by the $\bar{\partial}$-analysis of Dieng-McLaughlin (2008) and complemented by the recent work of Borghese-Jenkins-McLaughlin (2016) on soliton resolution for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This is a joint work with R. Jenkins, J. Liu and P. Perry.