This paper presents a survey of results in developing Real-Time CORBA, a standard for real-time management of distributed objects. The paper includes background on two areas that have been combined to realize Real-Time CORBA: the CORBA standards that have been produced by the international Object Management Group; and techniques for distributed real-time computing that have been produced in the research community. The survey describes major RT CORBA research efforts, commercial development efforts, and standardization efforts by the Object Management Group. A version of this paper appeared in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 11, no. 10, Oct. 2000